Did you try html_entity_decode?
http://us2.php.net/html_entity_decode
You may want to combine this with mysql_real_escape_string()...?
Jordan
On Aug 22, 2005, at 8:29 AM, Jay Paulson wrote:
I have a problem that I'm sure some of you have run into before,
therefore I hope you all know of an easy solution. Some of my
users are cutting and pasting text from Word into text fields that
are being saved into a database then from that database being
displayed on a web page. The problem occurs when some special
characters are being used. Double quotes, single quotes, and other
characters like accents etc have the special html code like "e;
etc replacing the special characters. What methods are being used
to combat this issue? Is there a solution out there to run text
through some sort of filter before submitting it to the database to
look for these special characters and then replacing them?
Thanks for any help,
Jay
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